I just realized that I forgot to post an announcement her regarding the new American Survival Blog. ASB has officially merged with Red Alerts (from which it originally spun off) and from now on all survival postings will be there. ASB was originally created because Red Alerts was a politics,crime and culture blog. However I now [...]

Yeah, I know I haven’t been keeping up with the site but I do have a couple of good resources for you to peruse on basic/primitive skills that will help you as society slides into chaos. Enjoy: Hedgehog Leatherworks has a great short article on primitive jerky making techniques. This will definitely come in handy if [...]

I happen to be a huge crayfish fan and I am also a proponent of crayfish trapping for padding out your larder in the lean times. The “river lobsters” are found almost everywhere, breed quickly and are pretty nutritious. They are most active at night and can be baited with gizzards, dead worms, corn and [...]

It’s no secret that I like my .410. I like the .410 000 buck loads that have been available (thank you Judge owners) and since my main .410 is the .45/.410 Survivor by Harrington & Richards I keep a few hundred rounds of .45 colt rounds around (thank you cowboy action shooters) for in case [...]

This list has been floating around the Internet since the Y2K panic. Someone sent this to me recently and it was probably the tenth time I’ve come across it so I decided to archive the list here for posterity. I do not endorse all these uses and recommend caution when you experiment with some of [...]

I’ve long maintained that in a survival situation running a trap line for small game is much more efficient than actively hunting in terms of calories taken in vs calories burned. Dale Martin’s The Trapper’s Bible is my personal go to reference for survival trapping but I always keep my eyes open for simple, primitive [...]

As is the entire “Gold will save you from the apocalypse” movement. I’ve said before that if you believe that America is really going to collapse and chaos will rain then Gold is a Sucker’s Bet for Survival. Making money now and preparing for life in a second world country (at best) is the way [...]

Via Survivalblog comes this list of .pdfs that are mainly public domain works covering a variety of topics that will be useful to the survivalist post TEOTWAWKI. Farming, hunting, fishing, trapping, food preservation building heating and refrigeration devices, blacksmithing, gem mining, this forum thread has it all. As we slip into second world status 19th century [...]

Foraging wild edibles is a skill every survivalist should continuously work to develop. No matter how deep your larder is or how productive the micro farm in your backyard is, utilizing nature’s bounty will be necessary to extend the life of your stored foods and add nutritional value to the crops you are (hopefully) growing. Dale [...]

I should start by saying I happen to be a fan of the .410 even though there are many limitations to its performance when compared to 12ga, 20ga or even the once again popular 16ga. But the scrappy little .410 bore is no more limited than the .22  which has long been known as an [...]